The godfather of psychoanalysis: circumcision, antisemitism, homosexuality, and Freud's "Fighting Jew".

A young woman's homosexuality reconsidered: Freud's "The psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman".

The relevance of castration and circumcision to the origins of psychoanalysis: 1. The medical context.

In this paper the author outlines and discusses the origins and the decline of castration and circumcision as a cure for the nervous and psychic disturbances in women and little girls between 1875 and 1905. The author argues that the opposition to this medical practice affected the conception of hysteria, promoting a distinction between sexuality and the genital organs, and the emergence of an ...

A theoretical overview of the concept of anxiety and its role on emotion regulation from the perspective of psychoanalysis from Freud's time to the present

Infants would be able to regulate emotion and manage anxiety merely through their intimate relationship with attachment figures they are emotionally in harmony with. This capability is essential for social, emotional, cognitive, and neurobiological development of children, and moreover, their ability to cope with anxiety predicts their success in future relationships. Thus, a theoretical overvi...

John Watson's paradoxical struggle to explain Freud.

John Watson was fascinated by the discoveries of psychoanalysis, but he rejected Freud's central concept of the unconscious as incompatible with behaviorism. After failing to explain psychoanalysis in terms of William James's concept of habit, Watson borrowed concepts from classical conditioning to explain Freud's discoveries. Watson's famous experiment with Little Albert is interpreted not onl...

Matthias J. Becker - article (Vienna) final

Within society and public discourse, antisemitism is still perceived as emanating predominantly from the political Right. However, reactions to the Six-Day War in 1967 demonstrated the falsity of this assumption. Anti-Zionist attitudes spread in German public discourse, notably among the New Left. Although the left attempts to distance itself from antisemitism, it nevertheless justifies the rep...